File Associations are whacked

I've got system and a user on that system where all his file associations are whacked.
Even if I right click on a file to associate it with a program the file association doesn't stick.
Is there a way to reset all his file associations?
For the most part he can't open any files by double clicking them.
It's Solaris 10 JDS if that helps.
I've tried update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/ but that doesn't fix his problems.

Fixed it. Somehow the perms got whacked on /usr/share/mime and it wasn't world readable.
I installed OpenOffice 3.0 a couple weeks back, must of somehow changed the perms on that dir when the install did an update-mime-database.

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